Training Log Archive: iansmith

TED talks I have watched over the past week:
Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
Sean Carroll on the arrow of time
Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers
David Keith's unusual climate change idea
Helen Fisher tells us why we love and cheat
Jonathan Drori on what we think we know
Michael Shermer on Believing Strange Things
Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

I particularly enjoyed Cox, Shermer, Fisher, and Specter. I highly recommend Cox; the content of his presentation is meaningful, and he is a very effective speaker.

ARDF training on the 2m band at Breakheart Reservation in the company of Becky, Brendan, Stephen, Presto, and Lori. I walked the entire time, but I chose to log it because I spent the time getting more acquainted with the properties of my receiver and its behavior. It was very frustrating to plod along when I knew the transmitters were within the distance I could typically run in 60 seconds.

To and from Park Street to see Othello with Eric, Stephen, Lori, and Presto. Never lose your handkerchief; if you do, you will be brutally murdered by your lover. Also, never trust people whose epithet is "honest."

Kayaking on the Charles. I went east from the Charles River Canoe and Kayak almost to the Harvard bridge (I turned around at the MIT Boathouse). After a brisk warmup, I did 6x3 minutes on, 1 minute off, then paddled home at threshold pace. The waves and wind were formidable barriers in the basin past the Western Ave Bridge.

To be disciplined means to do what must be done despite your instantaneous state, e.g. if you feel like you have just been hit by a bus.

My office recently started a ten session Yoga program targeted at beginners on Wednesdays at lunch, and I joined for the second session. It did not tax my strength, though my flexibility proved inadequate for certain degrees of motion.

I had my physical today, and apart from a diagnosed left soleus strain, I am in excellent health. I will have more data when I complete the blood work component of the examination later this week.

It should be noted that I have a superburrito on both 26 July and today.

Apart from my regular commute, I biked to Fresh Pond for circuit training with Lori and Stephen. They weren't there when I arrived, so I started biking loops around Fresh Pond, honing my pedestrian-dodging subroutines. They arrived after the first loop, and I biked two more while I was waiting for them to finish 2m training.

After some drills, in which I was largely a spectator because of my infirmity, we started on a modified version of circuits, including:
tuckups, telejumps, dying bug, metzler devils, kayakers, lunges, cherry pickers, hip thrusts, boat rocks, and supermans

We had difficulty remembering the list of exercises (and inadvertently varied), and an unfortunately large number of mosquitoes have subscribed to the CSU training list and joined our session. As a result, we stopped after two circuits.